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Creates an account and a primary contact, including addresses and phone numbers for the account/contact.

Parameters

Returned Parameters

Example

As with every method we need to pass in credentials. We do this with the LookupUser request object.

We’ll assume you’ve got a web reference, let’s name it SWS, in your Visual Studio project.  At this point we need to our objects.  We’ll need the standard service object, a CreateNewAccount request object and a CreateNewAccount response object.  We can define and create these like this:

// Create request and response objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.CreateNewAccount_Request request = new SWS.CreateNewAccount_Request();
SWS.structCreateAccount response;

SWS.ContactAddress address = new SWS.ContactAddress();
SWS.ACCT_CONTACT_PHONES phone = new SWS.ACCT_CONTACT_PHONES();

Here’s my sample code of the Request object.

// new address object
address.Addr1 = "1234 Main St";
address.Addr2 = "Apt. B";
address.City = "My Town";
address.State = "UT";
address.PostalCode = "55555";
address.Country = "USA";
address.AddrType = SWS.AddressType.HOME;
address.Active = true;
                       
// new phone object
phone.PHONE  = "800-555-1212";
phone.PHONE_TYPE = SWS.PhoneType.MOBILE;

// new acct request
request.OrgID = 123456;
request.SiteID = 123456;
request.FirstName = "FirstName";
request.LastName = "LastName";
request.AccountName = "LastName, FirstName";
request.AccountClass = SWS.AccountClass.PERSONAL;
request.ContactType = SWS.ContactType.ACCOUNT_MANAGER;
request.Email = "email@co.com";
request.EcommCode = "mypassword";
request.ContactAddress = new SWS.ContactAddress[]{ address};
request.ContactPhone = new SWS.ACCT_CONTACT_PHONES[] { phone };

Finally we can call the method and pass across the login object and the request object to create our new account. It’s a good idea to do this in a Try Catch block.

Try
 // Call the method that will load the response object
try
{
  response = service.CreateNewAccount(user_request, request);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Note that if something goes wrong the service will respond with an exception. You’ll want to take a look at that message returned in that exception so it can be debugged.

For a full list of methods see SWS Methods.